November, already?

So, I can't believe that it's that eleventh month already! I can't believe that in two weeks I will be waiting to enter my kindergarten class to share the teaching responsibilities until December 21st! This is crazy stuff!

Well, other news in my life would be that over the past couple weeks, I have been lucky enough to have been visited by one friend from Winnipeg and some of the friends I made in Korea. It was a welcome break from the monotony of my lacking social life seeing as I am attempting to complete all of my assignments and therefore rarely seeing the light of day. It also helped me deal with some things that, as you can tell from my previous post, I had not yet moved past.

The roomies as Indiana Jones and a Brazilian Model

For Halloween, the roomies went out while I stayed at home as I had a science presentation to do the next morning at 8:30am that I wanted to be prepared for. That did not stop our class from dressing up to win a prize from our student council. A couple weeks ago, we won the prize for the most people wearing their pyjamas which got us free Tim Bits (I am not so much a fan of donuts, but I am all about the free). This time though, we lost to a group of people in the middle school or secondary school division...punks! At least we had a good time! The spread

We also had a potluck on Tuesday the 30th because we spend the entire day in one classroom. We invited our professors who gladly came and we had a lot of fun! I am really lucky to be in Group B, we attend all of the classes together and we share each other's stress.

Jo getting ready to eat

The people in our group, for the most part, are open-minded and just amazing people. The profs have said that they can't believe how good of a group we are, which could be because they wanted to be invited to the potluck...but I will take the compliment none the less!
Sarah and her amazing punch!

Lyzanne and I

Bus tale #2-The Ultimate Crazy

This is another tale promoting the use of an mp3 player on the bus...because it is another tale based on me forgetting my mp3 player before taking the bus!

This time I got on the bus and it was completely silent. There was nobody recounting their exploits from the previous evening on their cell phone, no roommates discussing who should buy what for dinner, just the whir of the engine. Until Crazy decided to start mumbling to himself.

Seated in one of the handicapped spots at the front of the bus, Crazy was a young man of some unknown ancestry. He seemed like any other person riding the bus...until he decided to speak:

"I'm going to kill myself" he said first.

Now, having only just boarded the bus, this sudden utterance disturbed me, because it's not something one hears on a day to day basis (even while riding bus #2). I quickly looked around to see if my reaction was shared by the other people on the bus....the consensus: if the others heard him, they ignored him.

But Crazy didn't care if you heard him or not...no sir, he had some ideas in his head and he needed to share them. Here are some other pearls of wisdom from Crazy:

"I only got my driver's license so I could become a suicide bomber"

"Come and sit on my knee little boy, it's my gay day...just kidding, it's my straight day"

I learned a lot about Crazy that day, more so than I was prepared to and I was happy to say goodbye to him when I got off the bus...and surprised to see him when I got back on the bus to go home!!

The only difference was, whatever he had been on earlier that morning had lost it's effect. He was no longer slouched over at the front of the bus mumbling to himself and the rest of the bus. He was standing, holding onto his Subway sandwich, and wearing his Ipod. Sometimes even Crazy needs to block out people on the bus.